# Songs with Maternal Advice **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-maternal-advice/761655 "2016-08-03T17:50:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-maternal-advice/761655/41 "2016-08-04T21:47:39Z")
[My mommy said not to put beans in my ears.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_dk2e3Utbo) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-maternal-advice/761655/42 "2016-08-05T00:44:52Z")
“My Mama talked-a to me, tried to tell me how to live. But I don’t listen to her cause my head’s like a sieve.” - Cheech and Chong’s “Earache My Eye” featuring Alice Bowie ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-maternal-advice/761655/43 "2016-08-05T00:46:37Z")
“All About That Bass” by Megan Trainor ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-maternal-advice/761655/44 "2016-08-05T02:29:50Z")
Does “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” count? Mama wasn’t really dispensing advice, but she was setting her son straight about the kind of man his father was. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-maternal-advice/761655/45 "2016-08-05T02:31:30Z")
Johnny B. Goode’s mama gave him some good career counseling. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b782af/32.png) [@Why\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_Child)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-maternal-advice/761655/46 "2016-08-05T20:18:47Z")
“Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun But mama, that’s where the fun is…” Manfred Mann’s Earth Band. “Blinded By The Light” ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-maternal-advice/761655/47 "2016-08-05T22:58:52Z")
“Ah want tae be a punk rocker but ma mammy wullny let me, She says if ah’m a punk she’ll throw me oot and hit me” ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-maternal-advice/761655/48 "2016-08-05T23:38:20Z")
_Walkaway Joe_ by Trisha Yearwood _Mama told her baby girl take it real slow Girl told her momma hey I really gotta go He’s waiting in the car Mama said girl you won’t get far_ ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-maternal-advice/761655/49 "2016-08-06T00:06:55Z")
How appropriate that I saw this thread after reading a post in another thread about Andy Summers… \*Well I hear my mother calling, But I don’t need her as a friend. Well every girl I go out with Becomes my mother in the end. Oh, Oh mother Oh mother dear please listen And don’t devour me. Oh mother dear please listen Don’t devour me.\* **Mother** , The Police ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-maternal-advice/761655/50 "2016-08-06T02:23:58Z")
Mama Leone left a note on the door, saying “sonny, move out to the country.” ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-maternal-advice/761655/51 "2016-08-06T02:34:30Z")
[Mama Says:](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXILKwxEq_Y) _Eat a lot, sleep a lot Brush 'em like crazy Run a lot, do a lot Never be lazy_ ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-maternal-advice/761655/52 "2016-08-06T05:02:13Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > A song with a notable exception is CeeLo Green’s “Fuck You”: > > I tried to tell my mamma but she told me “this is one for your dad” Another notable exception would be “Mother” by Danzig: “Mother…tell your children not to look my way. Tell your children not to hear my words…what they mean, what they say.” And so on through the lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-maternal-advice/761655/53 "2016-08-06T05:16:51Z")
Killdozer’s maternal epiphany in “Hamburger Martyr”: “For I think now I finally understand what mama meant to me, When she would say that I was one of God’s special ones…” kills me that I can’t find a link for this. The way it started was nice. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-maternal-advice/761655/54 "2016-08-06T07:26:06Z")
“I Hope You Dance” by Lee Ann Womack. It sure sounds like advice from a mother to her son, but I could be misreading. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-maternal-advice/761655.md?page=2)